This study aims to examining the participation of women journalists in reporting hard news stories with particular reference to the Amharic News Department of the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, EBC. To find out the available data, two qualitative data instruments, in-depth interview and focus...
The purpose of this study was to examine the media coverage and roles of Ethiopian printrnmedia in achieving consensus regards with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam building.rnThe study was situated within Agenda setting and consensus Theory of Ideology.rnIn order to address the research...
This research aims at analyzing and comparing women characters in the novels of Chinua Achebe and Nadine Gordimer. It tries to explore the feminist outlook of the writers taking the portrayal of female characters. And also it uncovers the development of these female portrayals in the selected...
This study was intended to provide a comprehensive documentation and description of the verbrnmorphology of Borna, a little-documented North Omotic language spoken in Benishangul-rnGumuz National Regional State of Ethiopia. The data was collected through recording ofrnobserved and staged...
The purpose of the study was to analyze the content of the media coverage of food safety/adulteration issue: in case of Addis Zemen and Addis Admas newspapers. The researcher used both qualitative and quantitative research tools to support the claims raised and to get elaborated detail information...
Employee work satisfaction and motivation of journalists is essential to face the dynamic andrnever increasing challenges of maintaining productivity of the media organization by keepingrntheir workforce constantly engaged, motivated and satisfied.rnAccordingly, this study aims to investigate the...
The purpose of this study was to explore how sensationalism was addressed with respect to harmonizing Amharic commercial advertisement clips aired on EBC with language use and cultural values. More specifically, it focused on addressing the major themes of the study (language use, emotive language...
This research was conducted in order to explore the presence of enabling environment for investigative journalism in Ethiopia in the case of EBC radio cluster, FM 104.4 Mekelle, SNNPRS RTA/FM 100.9. Therefore, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to collect the needed data....
This quantitative study was aimed at assessing the use of social media and the prevalence of social media addiction among the undergraduate students of St. Mary's University. Social Media platforms the students are using, reasons behind the students' use of Social Media, Social media addiction and...
This study is conducted to make assessment of Foreign Language Department at ETV as regardrnto giving coverage to Pan-Africanism core themes and promoting the Africa rising narrative torninternational community residing in Addis Ababa. The study particularly focused on framing -rnPanAfricanism...
This dissertation presents the descriptions of the segmental and non-segmental phonology rnof Kunama, a Nilo-Saharan dialect cluster spoken in Western Eritrea and Northern rnEthiopia. It also provides an annotated multimedia corpus of the names and description of rnthe Kunama cultural...
This study attempted to establish a nexus between the three dimensions of press freedom (Economic, political and legal environment) and human development taking five year data from Six eastern African countries. Both Correlation and multiple regression panel linear regression analysis methods were...
The general objective of the study was investigation of corporate reputation of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. To carry out this study the researcher used quantitative approach. The data collection instrument used were questionnaire and interview schedule. The total survey sample population consisted...
The research had the objective of describing Amharic proverbs of advice from the linguistic point of view. The description included syntactic patterns, stylistic features, and pragmatics of the proverbs. A descriptive method was used for the study of the structure of the proverbs. The proverbs were...
Conflict is inevitable. Different societies handle it in various traditional and modern ways.rnGurage people in general and Cheha of Sebat bet Gurage in particular have their ownrntraditional institutions that maintain peace and prevent conflict. Thus the aim of this study is tornanalyze conflict...
This study provides relatively detailed descriptions of inflectional morphology in the Oromo language. It identifies occurrence patterns of morphemes and draws rules for inflections in the language. Although it focuses basically on inflectional morphology, it, in some ways, deals with derivational...
Banna is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and it isrnBoth primary and secondary data were collected in this study. Key informants’ interview was utilized for primary data gathering.rnnot well-studied and documented linguistically. Therefore, this study attempts to...
The major purpose of this thesis is to identify and develop a morphosyntactic tagset for morphosyntactic annotation of texts in Tigrinya, the Ethio-Semitic language having about seven to nine million speakers in Ethiopia and Eritrea (CSA, 2007; CIA 2012;...
The purpose of the study is to examine the language use in Aksum linguisticrnlandscape. In order to meet this purpose the required data are collectedrnthrough photographing, observation, semi-structured interviews held withrnbusiness owners and customers. The result of the study has been...
Peace is a necessary antecedent condition for societies to continue and remain prosperous. However, conflict occurring among individuals, between communities violet peace and stability of the society. This thesis investigates traditional conflict resolution mechanisms and related language use among...